Bench of Justice - Courtroom Clarity Update

Bench of Justice - Quality Update

Hello Judges,

This update focuses on improving readability, interface clarity, accessibility, localization, and the overall flow of the courtroom experience.

Courtroom UI Improvements

The courtroom screen has been redesigned to reduce visual noise and make each phase clearer. Testimony, evidence review, judge actions, objectives, credibility, and tension now have better hierarchy depending on the current stage of the trial.

We also improved layout behavior on smaller screens and laptop resolutions, fixed elements that could fall outside the visible frame, and adjusted several panels to avoid unnecessary scrollbars.

Evidence & Contradiction Flow

Finding contradictions should now feel clearer and more rewarding.

This update adds:

• Better visual guidance when identifying contradictions

• Stronger feedback when a contradiction is discovered

• Highlighting for the relevant testimony and evidence

• Improved evidence panel sizing

• Cleaner evidence inspection behavior

• Safer progression when the player needs to continue after evidence review

Verdict Screen Redesign

The verdict screen has been rebuilt as a more premium judicial report.

It now includes:

• A clearer case summary

• Your ruling versus the true outcome

• Key evidence impact

• Reputation effects

• More polished verdict presentation

Career & Free Mode Improvements

Career mode has been expanded into a proper judge dashboard with:

• Case history

• Reputation trajectory

• Judicial rank progression

• Achievements

• Judge profile information

• Active career risks

Free Mode case selection has also been improved with filtering by difficulty, type, duration, and case tags such as criminal, civil, ethics, and high-impact.

Main Menu & Bug Reporting

A new bug report module has been added to the main menu.

Players can now send reports directly through Formspree, including automatic runtime details such as language, viewport, route, recent gameplay telemetry, and basic game state. Empty reports are now blocked to make submissions more useful.

Localization Fixes

We reviewed and normalized UI localization coverage across all supported languages.

All language dictionaries now contain the same number of UI keys, reducing missing or fallback text in menus, tutorials, evidence screens, verdict screens, and career UI.

Other Fixes

This update also includes:

• Main menu cleanup

• Removed unnecessary Options buttons from several screens

• Improved language selector sizing

• Better vertical character image presentation

• Reduced layout overflow in dashboard panels

• Save/reputation behavior reviewed and cleaned up

• Multiple small UI polish fixes across the game

Thank you for playing and for reporting issues. Your feedback directly shapes the next updates to Bench of Justice.